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Sherri Shepherd, a cohost of The View, claims she’s not homophobic just because she believes homosexuality is a sin and LGBT people are going to hell.

Shepherd sought to defend herself in a recent interview with Fusion host Alicia Menendez. When Menendez asked what Shepherd felt has been the biggest misconception about her has been throughout her career, she said it was that people had labeled her antigay — unfairly, in her opinion. Shepherd insisted she had no malice toward LGBT people, saying her beliefs are the result of her Christian background and though she hates the sin, she still loves the sinner.

"I think people don't know my heart," Shepherd told Menendez. "I think people feel I'm very judgmental. I think people feel I'm very homophobic. If they knew me, and knew my heart. ... You grow up being a Christian and you grow up believing homosexuality is a sin; you're going to hell if you're a homosexual. This is something that they teach in churches. So it's something that I grew up believing."

"I might not agree with your lifestyle, but I love you," Shepherd continued. "You may not agree with my lifestyle, but you love me ... I don't say it's a choice. If you tell me, 'Sherri, I was born gay.' OK. I'm not gonna argue with you, because I can't tell you how you feel and what's going on inside. I'm trying to make it into heaven by the skin of my teeth ... I don't know who I'm gonna see. So if you tell me you're born [gay], I'm not gonna argue with you. And I absolutely respect you for that. I just ask that people respect how I feel, [I] respect how you feel and we can have a great dialogue."

Hate the sin, love the sinner makes no damn sense to me. The 'sin' is what makes somebody who they are in some way, imo. It's a good/bad thing and as a gay man, it gets pretty tiring being so resentful of all the religious people that like to put homosexuality on the level of pedophiles/murderers/etc with the "love the sinner" crap.

It all falls apart when the "sin" in question is one that you have to go into Leviticus and Deuteronomy to find. It's not even one of the Ten Commandments, ffs. And her type doesn't go on crusades for even THOSE. Like where is she judging people who work on the Sabbath or covet their neighbor's cow? "I love you guys but js!!"

At least she's not trying to pretend she's not doing the judging, even though her reasoning is laughable. Either she or the people who raised her are squicked by gays, the end. That's what it always, inevitably is.

Not only does that logic make no sense, but the people who believe in the New Testament still going by the Old Testament or anything Paul said (most of the NT) because he contradicted the words of Christ, who, other than the 10 Commandments, is the only thing Christians are supposed to follow, if they even follow what the book tells them too.

I was barely out of elementary school when I realised the hypocrisies of most Christian based religions, and to see/hear/read people like Sherri remain so ignorant just makes my head hurt.

all the fundies ALWAYS say this shit. hdu label them a bigot, they just think buttsex and scissoring is a sin and that whoever does it is going to hell, nbd. And therefore it must be kept out of societal acceptance by any legal means necessary, nbd. It really hurts their feelings when you label them as hateful because they're NOT ok

Also my mom often tells me jokingly that I'm going to hell and I finally told her to stop, mostly because I know deep down that she still DOES believe in heaven and hell and I, as an atheist nutjob, am destined for the later. She was all hurt.

haha it's funny bc I was going down the paganism route and my mum telling me I'd go to hell made me step back and go holy shit and then I became an atheist and she's butthurt. I'm still going to hell appaz.

I still can't understand why they worry and pine over it so much when it doesn't even apply to their own lifestyle. Like, live your life, let others live theirs...idk why this is such a hard concept for society.

This is the main reason I left my church/organized religion as a whole. I went to parochial school and as taught that the church was open to all people. Until a lesbian couple started attending on Sundays and were asked to leave.

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when i was a churchgoer (evangelical, if it matters) i noticed they focused a lot on the sins of sexuality in general, especially to anyone over the age of 10-11. they have a real obsession/fascination with the desires they deny themselves.

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as someone who grew up in a church that later split due to differences over gay acceptance– church people are some of the most hypocritical, gross, sinning assholes on the planet, and having a common enemy in gay people makes them feel better about their own sins and it's 1000% about the superiority complex they get from it.

edit: add to that, most people statistically don't have gay attractions so while it'd be harder for someone who'd, let's say, cheated on their wife to condemn adulterers, it's really easy for people with no experience with gay feelings to write them off as sinful.